About
Rich Lizardo is an applied assistant professor in the Honors College and the History Department who focuses on the history of early-modern Spain. He received his B.A. in history at Yale University and his history Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include the study of poverty, charity and poor laws; theories and practices of punishment; Spanish empire and colonialism; national, cultural, religious and ethnic identities; and intellectual, religious and cultural history.
He has edited, copyedited and/or translated (from Spanish and Portuguese into English) academic articles, chapters and monographs for various scholars. He has served as an historical consultant for a Marvel animated television series. He has coedited a volume on early-modern hospitals, titled “Hospitales durante el Antiguo Régimen. Instituciones benéfico-asistenciales, siglos XV–XIX,” with Palermo University Press. And he is currently coediting two additional volumes—“The Contractual Monarchy of the Iberian World, c. 1500–1700” and “Philip III and the Government of the Spanish Empire, 1598–1621” — both under review with Brill. Finally, his other research projects include two forthcoming chapters: one on religious confraternities run by ethnic minorities in the early-modern Iberian world; another on the role of picaresque literature in 17th-century Spanish governance.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
- M.A., University of Pennsylvania
- B.A., Yale University
Research interests and areas of expertise
- Early-modern Spain
- Spanish empire
- Colonial Latin America
- Poverty, charity, and poor laws
- Theories and practices of punishment
- National, cultural, religious, and ethnic identities
- Intellectual, religious, and cultural history